Examples of forsaking: Israelites.

Numbers 16:27 - So they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little children.

Ezra 6:21,22 - And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the Lord had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.

Ezra 10:3,4,16,17 - And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month.